 The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Sida 2601819Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1910 - 298 sidor
...for what Age takes away, Than what it leaves behind. ' The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. ' With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | James Weber Linn - 1911 - 286 sidor
...what Age takes away, 35 Than what it leaves behind. " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill. Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. 40 " With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1911 - 482 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 sidor
...yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Abram Linwood Urban - 1913 - 160 sidor
...same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard "The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. "With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife, they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - 1914 - 628 sidor
...yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. " The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. " With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife : they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1916 - 330 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. "The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. "With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1920 - 264 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Basil Anderton - 1922 - 208 sidor
...on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. . . . The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | william worsworth - 1923 - 498 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. "The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. "With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age "But we... | |
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